Terrain analysis and data modeling for alpine glacier mapping

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• Corresponding author; email: [email protected]. This work was funded by the University Committee on Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the United States National Science Foundation (Grant No. EAR 9418839 and EPS‐9720643). UK would like to thank the Max Kade Foundation in New York for post‐doc funding. The paper was completed in September 2002 and went to press early the following month.
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